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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Good Deeds Day

On Good Deeds Day on March 16, 2021, four ADI residents became the world’s first wheelchair users to train in an advanced flight simulator, each enjoying 60-minute flight instruction simulations with the guidance of an El Al pilot (Liat Mandel)
March 24, 2021, 10:34 am
Piloting El Al simulator, four people with disabilities touch the sky
On ‘Good Deeds Day,’ residents of ADI, which provides residential and rehabilitative care, become first pilots in a wheelchair to fly an El Al Boeing 737 flight simulator
By Jake Epstein
A woman goofs around with her neighbor's baby during the Umuganda community meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on February 25, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
March 27, 2017, 10:29 pm
In once-torn Rwanda, fear of a fine molds a nation of do-gooders
Through Umuganda, the monthly government-mandated community service, Rwandans piece together a society shattered by genocide
By Melanie Lidman
Still looking for a good deed to do? House painters are needed in Hadera. (Courtesy Good Deeds Day 2016)
March 15, 2016, 3:23 pm
Altruists unite for day of the (good) deed
It’s the tenth annual local Good Deeds Day, created by Israeli magnate Shari Arison
By Jessica Steinberg
A John Bryce students works on a computer, which will eventually find its way to the home of a needy child (Photo credit: Courtesy)
March 11, 2014, 6:35 pm
High-tech mitzvah: Group fixes up PCs for needy kids
Students at an Israeli tech college are set to refurbish 1,000 computers, to be distributed by a social service group
By David Shamah
A student interacts with a surprised and delighted member of the audience (photo credit: image capture/YouTube)
March 9, 2013, 3:49 am
A classical take on flash mobbing
Jerusalem art students perform impromptu Tchaikovsky concert at Hadassah Hospital
By ToI Staff
Shari Arison participating in 2011's International Good Deeds Day. (Photo credit: Sivan Farag)
March 14, 2012, 10:06 am
International Good Deeds Day, brought to you by Israeli billionaire Shari Arison
Last year saw 160,000 do-gooders across the globe volunteering in everything from cleaning nature reserves to donating blood
By Abigail Pickus
Illustrative: A carer helping an elderly Israeli to cross the street in Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 21, 2012, 2:01 pm
MTV promotes mitzvot
What do you plan to do?
By Aaron Kalman
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